New Gallup Poll Shows Support for the Electoral College has Risen Sharply Since the Election
As liberals run around calling for the electoral college to be abolished, a new poll shows that more Americans support the electoral college since the election.
That’s because we do not want out-of-touch liberal states like California and New York deciding presidential elections for the rest of us.
From Gallup:
Americans’ support for keeping the Electoral College system for electing presidents has increased sharply. Weeks after the 2016 election, 47% of Americans say they want to keep the Electoral College, while 49% say they want to amend the Constitution to allow for a popular vote for president. In the past, a clear majority favored amending the U.S. Constitution to replace the Electoral College with a popular vote system…
Despite some Democratic elected officials and media pundits calling for intensively studying, if not doing away with, the Electoral College, the country is now sharply divided on the issue.
In previous years, Americans preferred amending the U.S. Constitution to abolish the Electoral College, but not in 2016. One possible reason is that Republicans are aware that President-elect Trump would not have won the presidency without winning the Electoral College, and that Republicans possess a state-by-state advantage in this area, at least for now. Also, the popular vote is clearly advantageous to Democrats, who can accumulate big totals in heavily Democratic states such as California.
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I was all for getting rid of the Electoral college before this election. Now I understand the importance of it and want to keep it now. All my libtard friends used to put me down for being against it. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Now I will tell them, you know you were right about keeping the electoral college he he.
Good for you Frank,lmao ;}>
Ha! You voted for a lifelong democrat atheist reality tv star who headlined wrestlemaina and now you’re debating the electoral college in your own mind? You and your hoard of lemmings just tied a rock around America’s neck and threw it in the river. You fell for the biggest con ever.
Wait… You voted either for a career criminal, a Communist, or one of the other two mental cases, and you have the gall to talk? I’d say you fell for the biggest con ever!
Damm Joe, I see you fell for the con as well. Oh well, you’ll get it right next time. God Bless You.
I definitely want the electoral college, I vote over party lines at times but I want it to be fair for all of us
I sure don’t want California and New York picking our President.
I am all for the electoral college vote, it’s obvious until we have a voting system that is fair and not tainted with illegals, dead people votes, and repeat votes we need the electoral vote to even the playing field, otherwise highly populated areas like California and New York would decide who our president is going to be every four years, electoral college votes gives the smaller populated states a true voice
As usual , Joe and Jane Six-pack have once again failed miserably to see beyond the obvious at best. At worse they have enabled the same group of creatures that drove our economy into the ditch in 2008 to get the car keys again. Forgot about the Electoral College being one of the last instruments of slavery. That wouldn’t concern most of the 70 million Americans(mostly white) who supported Trump . After all they argue, we weren’t around then so you can’t blame us. How about this then. Loss of mandatory time and 1/2 for approximately 20 million of Donald’s people or loss of health care. Maybe losing benefits like SNAP or food stamps. Contrary to popular belief the majority of recipients are…..wait for it: White. Not black or Hispanic. And that’s just for starters. You haven’t been Trumped yet;